Show I j POll POLICE f RS RESCUE U KIDNAP VI TIM Hotel Owner Held Captive Captive Cap Cap- tive for Week 7 Men of Gang Arrested CHICAGO April 7 AP Held AP-Held Held Held captive f for r a week by a band of kidnapers as hostage for a ransom ransom Thomas Thoma Gaynor motor car a ade ar ardealer de dealer ler and hotel owner was rescued by Chicago detectives today after an an exciting pursuit on the heels of what police described as a nationwide nationwide nationwide nation nation- wide gang of abductors seven of whom were arrested The r rescue of the gangs gang's wealthy victim was made in a drab two- two room summer cottage at Crystal Lake Ill forty miles northwest of I Chicago where detective squads broke In on the gangs gang's hiding place and nd found Gaynor under the armed guard of two kidnapers Police had spent what appeared to be an al almost al al- most roost futile day on the trail of the gang searching more than forty cottages in the summer resort re region region region re- re gion before arriving at the hiding place ALMOST COLLAPSES Gaynor unshaven und end unkempt after his week weel as the gangs gang's prisoner prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner almost collapsed when he realized he was safe He said the kidnapers kept him In complete darkness all week either by naY nay- Ing lug him blindfolded or else locked iq in a dark darl room so that he was unable unable unable un un- un- un able to see his captors However he said they had not abused him When found Gaynor said he had no Idea of what day of the week it was nor even the time of day lay although he said he felt he had been a prisoner a long tim time The rhe Continued on page 5 3 POLICE RESCUE KIDNAP VICTIM Co from page I 1 1 gang seized him he told po police li ct last list Sunday afternoon just as he he left his motor car salesrooms As no ic started do down don n the street a a. car swerved ver up to the curb beside him Its occupants forced him into t the e automobile From then on ho said he could hot tell wh where re he was taken although he said he was moved several times S GET ON TRAIL The TIle police got on the trail of the gang late last night after the kid kidnapers kid kid- had made overtures to Gaynor's Gay Gay- nors nor's partner James McCormick 1 Three of by them were arrested when i they appeared at the tho Mc Gaynor-Mc- Cormick agency for flue iho mono mon mony With information from this trio police detailed five fhe squads on the fie pursuit of the gang and n this mornIng morning morn morn- Ing ng had succeeded in rounding rounding- up p two vo others only to learn that Gaynor lay Gay laynor nor had been moved from the first fust hiding place a a. roadhouse Tipped he ho had been taken to Crystal Lake the squads continued then their search until the they met with success late this afternoon Police Commissioner Michael Hughes Jughes said he was convinced the th gang was the same which had operated operated op- op recently in Detroit Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia and anel other large cities and nd numbered among Its recent victims here Dapper Jake Adler cabaret owner and broker who was held captive until his friends paid 15 1300 13 00 for him |